Handed Down Cookbook app icon: a red cloth recipe book with a handwritten label

Handed Down Cookbook

Turn the family’s handwritten recipe cards into a keepsake book you can print and give.

Coming soon to the App Store
A scanned recipe card on the first page of a family cookbook Choosing a book style and page size before saving the PDF Checking recognized text line by line next to the original card

Keep the card

Scan a card or choose photos. Straighten cards shot at an angle. Your originals are always kept.

Add the story

Who it came from and when you made it. Every field is optional, and nothing is written for you.

Text you can trust

Read a card’s text if you like, and check every line next to the original. Amounts are never changed for you.

Finish the book

Three book styles, a cover and a dedication. Save a print-ready PDF in US Letter or 6×9 inch.

Recipe of the day

Add the widget to your Home Screen and a different card from your book greets you every day.

Add from anywhere

Share up to 30 card photos straight from Photos or any app. You sort them into recipes before anything goes in the book.

Safe in your iCloud

With iCloud Drive on, your book is copied to your own iCloud, so it comes back if you delete the app or get a new iPhone.

Private by design

No account, no tracking, no data collected. Your book lives on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, never on our servers.

Free to start

Make a small book of 3 recipes for free. One purchase unlocks unlimited recipes. No subscription.

iPhone Duo unfolded, showing two facing pages of the family cookbook with the spine on the fold

Open it like a book on iPhone Duo

Unfold iPhone Duo and the screen becomes an open book: left page on the left, right page on the right, the spine right on the fold. Check text with the card on one page and the lines on the other.

Grandma’s handwriting stays.